IC 2985
IC 2985
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
154 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 154 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2985 as it looked roughly 154 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 3995Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 3966Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED02Spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 2978Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 2981Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED01Irregular7.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3966Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED02Spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 2978Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 2981Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED01Irregular7.8 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).